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When gold color starts to grip, it is a sign that in ten or twelve hours it will be dry & appropriate for gilding.
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- To make or mat beautiful, put in a little varnish or fatty oil, not from that which is made from the cleaning of pinceaulx, but the pure, which is made fatty in the sun or mixed with ceruse.
Or mat of this sort is scarcely less beautiful than es burnished gold, and lasts longer in the rain, & besides, & is made sooner. Burnished gold is cracked with time & comes apart in the rain.
Preventing teats from swelling d or to diminish overly large ones
Take large loaves of bread freshly drawn from the oven & split them in half &, as hot as may be done, apply them & they & do this 3 times a day & continue 4 or 5 days. Next, make a plaster with Venice turpentine or better, common turpentine. Mix in sumac, sloes from bushes, quince seeds, pomegranate flowers, olive tree leaves, & the like, boiled, & mix with the turpentine. But, I forgot, one needs, after having applied the hot bread, which softens & makes one sweat, to put on linens soaked with water from a honey beehive, that is to say honey & wax extracted all together from the honeycomb.
For attracting pigeons
Fry hempseed in a pan with oil & give some of it to the pigeons.
Against the bruising of eyes
At night, apply very thin sheets of lead. Singular remedy.
Pinceaulx
To make them well, cut the hair from the tail of a squirrel’s fur, as much in one go as one can hold in a card folded up into a small tube. And putting it thus into the aforesaid folded card, tap it & shake it such that the hair gathers together & becomes of the same length. Put one or two bristles of a rat’s whiskers in the middle, then, grabbing it with the fist & pinching it well with the thumb & index finger, thoroughly dip the tip of all this hair in water, then, moving close to
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